Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rather to identify some of the concrete problems which would have to be faced in any such exercise . |
| 2 | This was henceforth to seek some given minimum share of the market represented by demand outside the CPEs , instead of the situation hitherto , whereby OPEC acted as the ‘ residual supplier ’ , providing what was still needed after non-OPEC suppliers had eaten their fill . |
| 3 | The idea was basically to produce some kind of semi-independent Greece . |
| 4 | But when he spoke again it was only to express some anxiety about the conduct of the services while he was away . |
| 5 | Opened in 1779 by the village blacksmith , John Harvey , it was soon building some of the world 's largest boilers and stationary steam engines . |
| 6 | Unlike some of the young men attracted into Minton 's orbit , Bobby had a liveliness and curiosity that enabled him to respond and he was soon reading some of the American and Russian authors Minton admired . |
| 7 | I was desperately seeking some sort of reassurance , some sort of comeback from someone , but it soon became plain that I was not going to get it from her . |
| 8 | On the first day the film was already assuming some real-life events which were remarkably similar to those which the script itself called for , as some 10,000 local residents turned out to watch . |
| 9 | She opened her eyes and darted a glance at Marc , sure by now that he was already planning some further strategy by which to entangle her . |
| 10 | Yemen was already housing some 50,000 Somali and Ethiopian refugees and the authorities there said that their resources , especially health care provision , were overstretched . |
| 11 | By 1744 he was already spending some of his time in London , where Dodsley was his publisher . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't like the show , ’ said Allen , ‘ but I thought Michael was brilliant , and he was already doing some of the Frank Spencer mannerisms . |
| 13 | She was just boiling some water when the door opened and Julius walked in . |
| 14 | It was one of the busy nights , a Friday , most likely , and he was just spooning some number 42 into a white take-out carton when a voice from behind him whispered , ‘ Give me a bit of chicken , mister . |
| 15 | He was always finding some excuse to hold that wretched girl . |
| 16 | She was still seeking some further ease of tension in drinking sherry to an extent that worried her . |
| 17 | And was still wondering some half an hour later when Rosa had settled her down for the night but frustration , sharper than any pangs of hunger , was keeping her awake . |
| 18 | Then , at Imola , Niki again failed to finish — he was , I recall , disgusted with himself and with the engine , which was still having some teething problems — and Prost won . |
| 19 | ( c. 1228–1277 ) , administrator , was probably born some time before 1228 in the village of Boreham in Essex and was the son of Ralph , son of William of Boreham , minor landowner . |
| 20 | He was probably meeting some woman tonight , and obviously taking her somewhere glamorous . |
| 21 | The grave is of the late sixth century , but the krater was probably made some decades earlier , most likely in Laconia though some argue for a South Italian colony . |
| 22 | Now , the very word ‘ about ’ clearly warns us that the inscription was probably added some time after the event , but all the available evidence does point toward its veracity . |
| 23 | The seance was held and Mr Hayden was later shown some photographs and asked if he could recognise any of the people . |
| 24 | Condensation in the boathouse at Penarth lifeboat station had been preventing the crew drying out their dry-suits properly , and the moisture was also spoiling some highly specialist equipment . |
| 25 | At Lough Carra , most of the fish are being taken on the dap , but wetfly was also producing some sport for Jim Stafford , who landed a nice brace at 4lb 8ozs . |
| 26 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 27 | I was also given some other information about him , but for his sake I 'll keep it quiet . |
| 28 | He was also publishing some poetry in the ‘ little magazines ’ , such as ‘ Had We Nothing To Prove ’ , ‘ The Fly ’ , ‘ To Be Mentioned At Funerals ’ , and ‘ Just The Worst Time ’ . |
| 29 | In those days they were very good at Leeds , I got a nice letter back and was also sent some programmes and stuff . |
| 30 | As well as congratulations on her perceptiveness , Rosemarie was also sent some pre-historic goodies . |